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GERIATRIC TIMES | FALL 2009 Cleveland Clinic Geriatric Medicine Staff David Bronson, MD Chairman, Medicine Institute Barbara Messinger-Rapport, MD, PhD Interim Chair, Section of Geriatric Medicine Theodore Suh, MD, PhD Ronan Factora, MD Mark Mayer, MD REGIONAL GERIATRICS Ali Mirza, MD, Avon Lake, Lorain Lynn Chrismer, MD, Elyria Sathya Reddy, MD, Elyria Cesar Simbaqueba, MD, Lorain Emile Sabbagh, MD, Lakewood Hospital Carl Tyler Jr., MD, Fairview Hospital Babak Tousi, MD, Lakewood Hospital, Lutheran Hospital Ami Hall, DO, Hillcrest Hospital Itri Eren, MD, Lorain Joint Appointment in the Section of Geriatrics BRAIN TUMOR AND NEURO-ONCOLOGY CENTER Gene Barnett, MD, Director Glen Stevens, DO, PhD DIGESTIVE DISEASE INSTITUTE Brooke Gurland, MD Tracy Hull, MD Matthew Kalady, MD Jamilee Wakim-Fleming, MD 22 EMERGENCY SERVICES Fredric Hustey, MD ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM INSTITUTE Angelo Licata, MD GLICKMAN UROLOGICAL AND KIDNEY INSTITUTE Sandip Vasavada, MD Raymond Rackley, MD HEAD AND NECK INSTITUTE Catherine Henry, MD HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE Karen James, MD Michael Maier, DPM TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE Mellar Davis, MD Susan LeGrand, MD Terence Gutsgell, MD MEDICINE INSTITUTE Christopher Whinney, MD NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE Charles Bae, MD Karen Broer, PhD Neil Cherian, MD Kathy Coffman, MD Mark Frankel, MD, Lutheran Hospital Richard Lederman, MD, PhD NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE CONTINUED Mark Luciano, MD, PhD Richard Naugle, PhD Leopoldo Pozuelo, MD, FACP EDUCATION INSTITUTE Kathleen Franco, MD REHABILITATION INSTITUTE Kristin Carlin, DO Michael Felver, MD Frederick Frost, MD Steven Landers, MD, MPH Vernon Lin, MD, PhD OB/GYN AND WOMEN’S HEALTH INSTITUTE Matthew Barber, MD Marie Fidela Paraiso, MD Beri Ridgeway, MD Holly Thacker, MD ORTHOPAEDIC AND RHEUMATOLOGIC INSTITUTE Abby Abelson, MD, FACR Wael Barsoum, MD Chad Deal, MD M. Elaine Husni, MD Bruce Long, MD
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